SEPTEMBER 25, 1863:
Having
detached two Corps of The Army of The Potomac for duty in Chattanooga, President Lincoln, who is deeply in
mourning for his close friend and brother-in-law General Ben Hardin Helm
C.S.A., killed at Chickamauga, writes an acerbic and disgusted letter to
General Ambrose Burnside in northern Tennessee, berating him for not moving his
own much closer troops to Chattanooga. Lincoln, as was usually his wont when
writing angry letters, never sent it on.
